“…You'll first cover the fundamentals of databases and the SQL language, then build skills by analyzing data from real-world datasets such as US Census demographics, New York City taxi rides, and earthquakes from US Geological Survey. …”

“… The press has called Tekserve Corporation, the idiosyncratic Macintosh repair store in New York City, ""The Epicenter of Mac Culture in NYC"", ""The leader in Apple triage services"" and ""warm and eclectic - maybe even a little eccentric"". …”

“…Centering her analysis on the groups that have come through and significantly shaped New York City, Foner compares today’s Latin American, Asian, and Caribbean newcomers with eastern and southern European immigrants a century ago and with immigrants in other major U.S. cities. …”

“…Working in plastic, glass, stone, wood, steel, fiberglass and found objects, Tony Cragg has established himself as one of the most versatile contemporary sculptors. From New York City to Marfa, Texas, Donald Judd (1928-1994) expounds upon his lifelong preoccupation with aesthetics, his persistent efforts to place his work in the proper environment, and his dismissal of contemporary architecture. …”

“…Contributors to this volume ask how would it be to look at the politics of urban loss-and-damage not from the highly securitized zones of climate summits, but from favelas in Rio de Janeiro, flood-prone communities in São Paulo, urban gardens in Naples, or neighborhoods resisting climate gentrification in New York City? This book explores diverse worlds and praxis of urban social movements resisting the rising tides of climate crisis and social injustice…”

“…This volume, a collaboration between the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at UCL and the Food Agricultural Organisation, aims to fill this gap by putting more than 20 city-based experiences in perspective, including studies from Toronto, New York City, Portland and Providence in North America; Milan in Europe and Cape Town in Africa; Belo Horizonte and Lima in South America; and, in Asia, Bangkok and Tokyo. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Debate Is Timeless -- An Elegant Theory: The Capital Asset Pricing Model -- Further Elegance: The Efficient Market Hypothesis -- Reality Intrudes -- The Problem with MPT -- Notes -- Chapter 5 A More Human Description of Investors and Markets: Behavioral Finance -- Loss Aversion -- Mental Accounting -- Minimizing Regret -- Overconfidence -- Extrapolation and Reversal -- Investor Behavior in Action -- MPT Still Lives -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Active versus Passive Management: The Empirical Case -- Market Regimes -- Correlation and Dispersion -- Company Quality -- The Weight of Cash -- Luck versus Skill -- Investors Voting with Their Dollars -- Notes -- Chapter 7 The Case for Active Management -- April 2015: Investment Giants Square Off in New York City -- An Active-Passive Equilibrium -- The Case for Active Management -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Debates on Active Managers' Styles and Methods…”

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“…Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC. …”

“…With his move from Menlo Park, New Jersey, to New York City at the end of March 1881, Edison shifted his focus from research and development to the commercialization of his electric lighting system. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Picturing a metropolis: New York City unveiled (DVA 7967). The blizzard -- Lower Broadway -- Beginning of a skyscraper -- Panorama from Times Building New York -- Skyscrapers of NYC from North River -- Panorama from tower of the Brooklyn Bridge -- Building up and demolishing the Star Theatre -- Coney Island at night -- Interior New York Subway 14th Street to 42nd Street -- Seeing New York by yacht -- Looney lens: split skyscrapers -- Looney lens: Tenth Avenue, NYC -- 8th Avenue elevated train at 112th Street -- The trellis: work of sunshine and shade -- View of Herald Square Station -- Aerial view of Sixth Avenue train at 28th, 26th, 24th -- Manhatta -- Twentyfour-dollar Island -- Skyscraper symphony -- Manhattan medley -- A Bronx morning -- Footnote to fact -- Seeing the world -- The pursuit of happiness -- Gold diggers of 1935 ("Lullaby of Broadway") -- Autumn fire…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Static and dynamic geospatial data -- Geospatial file formats -- Vector data -- Raster data -- Introducing geospatial databases and storage -- PostgreSQL and PostGIS -- ArcGIS geodatabase -- Exploring open geospatial data assets -- Human geography -- Physical geography -- Country- and area-specific data -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Working with Geographic and Projected Coordinate Systems -- Technical requirements -- Exploring geographic coordinate systems -- Understanding GCS versions -- Understanding projected coordinate systems -- Common types of projected coordinate systems -- Working with GCS and PCS in Python -- PyProj -- GeoPandas -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Exploring Geospatial Data Science Packages -- Technical requirements -- Packages for working with geospatial data -- GeoPandas -- GDAL -- Shapely -- Fiona -- Rasterio -- Packages enabling spatial analysis and modeling -- PySAL -- Packages for producing production-quality spatial visualizations -- ipyLeaflet -- Folium -- geoplot -- GeoViews -- Datashader -- Reviewing foundational data science packages -- pandas -- scikit-learn -- Summary -- Part 2: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis -- Chapter 5: Exploratory Data Visualization -- Technical requirements -- The fundamentals of ESDA -- Example - New York City Airbnb listings -- Conducting EDA -- ESDA -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Hypothesis Testing and Spatial Randomness…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Gregory Boyle, Los Angeles Gangs and Hope -- One Thousand Races Pushing a Wheelchair -- To Lead, You Must Follow -- Takeaways -- Chapter 5 People Don't Obey the Laws of Physics -- There's a Pony in Here Somewhere -- Order Matters More than Inputs -- A Cell Is More Complex than New York City -- Three Buckets of Coal and a Bucket of Water -- Shakespeare in Every Cell -- It's about Time -- Wisdom Came First -- The Essence of Leadership -- Closing the Loop -- Takeaways -- Chapter 6 Order Is Easier to Create Than Keep -- The Growth Deception -- The Time Deception -- The Perception Deception -- The Skill Deception -- Self-leadership -- Functional Leadership -- Change Leadership -- Process Leadership -- Strategy Leadership -- The Desire Deception -- Weight Watchers Speaks -- Takeaways -- Part II What Effective Leaders Should Do -- Chapter 7 Build a Habit-reinforcing System…”

“…The attacks, which involved two planes hitting the twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, resulted in the collapse of the buildings and over 2800 deaths of occupants of the buildings, fire, police and other responders and persons on the street in the vicinity of the collapsing buildings. …”

“…The author has extensive experience in the New York City financial industry that is now distilled into this handy guide. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté volum 6: 3DELUXE (Leonardo Glass Cube, Bad Drinurg Germany, 200-07), p. 52 ; 3LHD ARCHITECTS (Sports Hall Bale-Valle, Croatia, 2005-06), p. 58 ; ADJAYE / ASSOCIATES (Museum of Contemporany Art/Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA, 2004-07), p. 66 ; Al WEI WEI/FAKE DESIGN (Template, Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany, 2007), p. 72 ; TADAO ANDO (21_21 Design Sight, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 2004-07), p. 76 ; ALEJANDRO ARAVENA (Centro Tecnológico, Universidad Católica, San Joaquin Campus, Santiago, Chile, 2003-06), p. 84 ; ARGE GRAZIOLI KRISCHANITZ (Museum Rietberg Extension, Zurich, Switzerland, 2004-06), p. 92 ; SHIGERU BAN (Post-Tsunami Rehabilitation Houses, Kirinda, Hambantota, Sri Lanka, 2005-07), p. 98 ; BARKOW LEISINGER (Trutec Building, Seoul, Korea, 2005-06), p. 102 ; BERNARDES + JACOBSEN (TIM Festival 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007), p. 108 ; COOP HIMMELB(L)AU (Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA, 2001-07 / BMW Welt, Munich, Germany, 2001-07), p. 114 ; OLAFUR ELIASSON ( The New York City Waterfalls, New York, New York, USA, 2008 / Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, Kensington Gardens, London, UK, 2007), p. 134 ; EMERGENT (Shenzen Museum of Contemporany Art, Shenzhen, China, 2007 / National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, 2006-07), p. 144 ; KSP ENGEL UNO ZIMMERMANN (Bergen-Belsen Documentation and Information Center, Celle, Germany, 2005-07), p. 156 ; FAM ARQUITECTURA (March 11 Memorial for the victims, Madrid, Spain, 2005-07), p. 164 ; FOSTER AND PARTNERS (Russia Tower, Moscow, Russia, 2006- / Crystal Island, Moscow, Russia, 2006-), p. 168 ; TERUNOBU FUJIMORI (Chashitsu Tetsu (Teahouse Tetsu), Kiyoharu Shirakaba Museum, Nakamaru, Hokuto City, Yamanashi, Japan, 2005), p. 174 ; MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS(Zénith Strasbourg, Ecxbolsheim, Strabourg, France, 2003-07), p. 180 ; ANTÓN GARCÍA-ABRIL (SGAE Central Ofiice, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spaim, 2005-07), p. 188 ; DIONISIO GONZALEZ (Favela Series, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 2004-07), p. 196 ; ZAHA HADID (Nordpark Railway, Innsbruck, Austria, 2004-07), p. 202 ; HEATHERWICK STUDIO (East Beach Café, Littlehampton, West Sussex, UK, 2005-07), p. 216 ; HERZOG & DE MEURON (National Stadium, Main Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing, China, 2003-08 / Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain, 2001-08), p. 222 ; STEVEN HOLL (The Nelson.Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, 2002-07), p. 240 ; HOLZER KOBLER (Arche Nebra Visitor’s Center, Wangen, Germany, 2005-07), p. 250 ; JUNYA ISHIGAMI (Facility, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, 2007-08), p. 258 ; TOYO ITO (Tama Art University New Library, Hachioji City, Tokyo, Japan, 2004-07), p. 266 ; JAKOB + MACFARLANE (City of Fashion and Design, Paris, France, 2007-08), p. 274 ; JENSEN & SKODVIN (Tautra Maria Convent, Tautra Island, Norway, 2004-06), p. 280 ; CARLOS JIMENEZ (Rice Libray Service Center (2002-05) and Rice Data Center (2006-07) / Rice University South Campus Master Plan, Houston, Texas, USA), p. 288 ; KENGO KUMA (Suntory Museum of Art, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 2004-07), p. 294 ; LASSILA HIRVILAMMI (Kärsämäki Church, Kärsämäki, Finland, 1999-2004), p. 302 ; LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA (La Purificadora BoutiqueHotel, Puebla, Mexico, 2006-07), p. 308 ; DANIEL LIBESKIND ( Royal Ontario Museum Extension, Toronto, Canada, 2002-07), p. 314 ; LIN FINN GEIPEL + GIULIA ANDI (Alvéole 14, Submarine Base Rehabilitation, Quartier Ville Port, Saint-Nazaire, France, 2005-07), p. 320 ; MII ARCHITECTEN (Information Center, National Center for Arboriculture, Baarn, the Netherlands, 2001-03), p. 330 ; MADA S.P.A.M. …”